🔭 M1 — Crab Nebula

Supernova remnant in Taurus

M1, Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus, with an apparent magnitude of about 8.4, roughly 6.5 thousand light-years away.

Data

Catalogue designation	M1
Common name	Crab Nebula
Object type	Supernova remnant
Constellation	Taurus
NGC / IC	NGC 1952
Apparent magnitude	8.4
Distance (approx.)	6.5 thousand light-years

What a supernova remnant is

The expanding wreckage of a star that exploded — a shock-fuelled bubble of shredded stellar material, often still racing outward at thousands of kilometres a second.

Other Messier objects in Taurus: M45.

Data: Messier catalogue & IAU constellations, via English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · stored statically.